Will Splatoon be ground breaking or forgettable?

Ground breaking is completely out of the question.

As for the other part, I don't know, it's Nintendo so it should be a good game at its core. The lack of features is troubling what with the lack of voice chat and lack of custom games (you know things Halo 2 had in 2004), and the single player looks like a series of challenge room segments built around the squid mechanics , which frankly looks underwhelming. If I had to take a guess I'd lean towards it'll be a typical flavor of the month type game. Ultimately good for what it is, but hardly any staying power, or at the least any real reverence for it as some forgotten gem.

I doubt it will be either, but it doesn't have to be.

Neither.

Neither. Somewhere in the middle. Probably a fun mulitplayer game, but nothing that's going to start a revolution by any means.

I agree with others. Neither groundbreaking or forgettable.

It's certainly creative and different, but calling it groundbreaking is a bit much.

It looks like a great idea done well.

this game looks super fresh

im so sick of ubisoft and ea and stuff

na dude this looks fresh to me

Neither.

I hope for the best and I'm looking forward to it.

Neither, like everybody said.

If I have to choice, I would say forgettable.

Passable, that's the word I'd have to choose.

It will be forgettable and dead within a year.

I say it will be groundbreaking fun to play with friends as squids. Give us that dual screen coop baby, lets go all out.

Neither. It's different enough from traditional match based pvp shooters, from both an artistic and gameplay element, but not completly and it's on the wii u, so........................................neither

Can't it just be fun? Jesus.

Why are those the only two choices? Why can't it just be a good game?

Like Titanfall? Like Evolve? Yep.

It will be both...... in other words.... a great game that will be forgotten.

This truly reveals the minds of most gamers. You're either the best thing ever or nothing. There's no inbetween with them. This is why the industry is now a cesspool of remastered games and DLC microtransactions.

@Bigboi500: if those games could barely survive, splatoon has no chance.

Two games that had nothing to do with this thread, congratulations.

Thank you. *bows*

@mems_1224: why is that?

SW population doesn't know what's "dead" or able to "barely survive" or if anything "has no chance" because they said Starhawk would be dead in a year, yet it's still going strong. A non-mainstream, non-call of duty, non-battlefield type of game.

@Bigboi500: what do you consider going strong? And how many players doss it have?

@lostrib: .I can't see an online wiiu multiplayer game with no voice chat doing better than two games with an established pedigree on multiple systems.

@mems_1224: oh I'd forgotten about that voice chat thing. What was Nintendo thinking...

A lot of core players during the day. An online multiplayer game doesn't have to have millions of newb casuals running around screwing things up for others to be relevant to its intended audience.

The things been going on a lot longer than I ever expected it to go. I imagine it'll get shut down sooner or later.

neither

@Bigboi500: how many is a lot?

Dunno, been playing a lot of Battlefield 4 on the Xbone lately, and Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, and I consistently find more players on Mario Kart 8 in matchmaking all times of the day. But that's just one system.

Speaking of the hawk series. Warhawk remains one of the most under rated multiplayer games of last gen. I swear if it was PC or multiplat it would have been well know that warhawk was one hell of a game. Worthy of more praise than it got.

Voice chat.

The feature everyone wants but nobody uses.

I keep hearing great things about that game, but damn it, I totally missed out on it.

Several thousand. More than enough to keep the good times rolling for us at any given time.

Yeah, it came out when it was popular to hate on the PS3 and everything PS3 related. This is why the first Resistance and Warhawk didn't get much attention. If it wasn't Halo or CoD then it didn't matter.

Groundbreaking. It will be the biggest thing since sliced bread.

Wii or U may forget.

@Bread_or_Decide: sure, I could see voice chat being useless if you have no friends. I have friends though

By that same token Titanfall still has a community on Attrition, the horde mode thing, and hardpoint on PC as late oh I don't know, me playing yesterday on a Tuesday at 4pm, and getting a clean full match. So it was hardly dead a year later, which still comes back to how it even fit as much of a rebuttal to mems post.

Not since the wheel I tellz ya. :P

Even with my friends I never use voice chat. You playing the game or gossiping with the girls?

How in the holy **** does anyone think this game is ground breaking?

It'll just be there, you know, like pavement.

Just me being defensive I guess. Seemed half way appropriate on the level of them being short lived online games, but maybe not.

@Bread_or_Decide: sounds like you have boring friends.

It will be forgotten in short order due to small install base of which those players actually buy it. I have a WiiU and have no plans of buying it.

It doesn't cause enough rage and that is what OP is hoping for.

Agreed on all of these statements.

Sounds like you'd be more at home with a sewing circle.

If I must say, the whole voice chat is indeed a letdown but then again, Destiny didn't have it but for me, when it comes to MP not using voice chat, I'm able to tell what the other players are doing by looking at there body language. As long as I can see there movements and what there doing, I'm okay with that and I learn fast anyways. Ether way, I'm still picking this game up day one but I'm not expecting to be groundbreaking, just a fun game, a new IP at that.

Yeah it's a letdown but since I'm a Destiny veteran, I just look at the other players what they are doing and follow up on that due to the lack of voice chat.